Yes, and what that article doesn't tell you is that Laurel would have been told by whoever studied with her, that "soon", the New System would be here, and she wouldn't have to worry about ever having to have an iron lung again. As she studied the Truth book, she, like almost every other Witness of the time, would have been convinced that The End was coming in '75. Soon all her problems would be over. I'm fairly sure that she never expected to die in this world. Why? Because she would have been assured that she wouldn't have to by the WTS.
Sadly, like every other Witness, she did die and has been gone for 23 years now. Would she have even become a Witness if she had known that their prophecies would all fail to 'come to pass'??